Remove trailing whitespace on save in IntelliJ IDEA 12

klingt.net picture klingt.net · Dec 19, 2013 · Viewed 44k times · Source

Is it possible to remove trailing whitespace automatically on save in IntelliJ IDEA? I know there are some workarounds, for example, using git to trim the whitespace on commit. Maybe this question is a duplicate of this one, but i hope this can be done without setting up keyboard shortcuts and macros.

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Vic picture Vic · Dec 19, 2013

Don't know about 12, but there's the following setting in 13:

Settings → Editor → Strip trailing spaces on Save

As of IntelliJ 2017.2 it's under

Settings → Editor → General → Strip trailing spaces on Save

configuration dialogue